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Sea-watch

Sea-Watch e. V. is a non-profit initiative dedicated to civil sea rescue of refugees. Sea-Watch operates a ship and an airplane, with which refugees in distress at sea are sought, found and rescued. In view of the humanitarian catastrophe, Sea-Watch provides emergency aid, at the same time demanding and accelerating rescue by the competent European institutions and publicly standing up for legal escape routes.

This presentation by the activists Alina Krobok and Nicolas Zemke will highlight the beginnings of Sea-Watch and its recent developments over the past three years.

Sociologist Alina Krobok will give an insight on the way the organization works and describe the current situation on the Mediterranean, where the strategies of criminalization of the humanitarian work enforced by the EU make sea rescue more and more dangerous.

The organisation is setting itself against the trend to rely on closed systems within many NGOs. Software developer Nicolas Zemke will describe the hurdles in implementation and use of open software in this dynamic environment. Nicolas will also describe the work of the Sea Watch IT and its recent developments in the field of drones and coordinating software.